Re: Attaching to a remote desktop?
Alan Pope wrote:
> On 29/06/05, Jorge Tomé Hernando <jorge@jorgetome.info> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, June 29, 2005 11:34, Arjen Verweij said:
>> > L.S.,
>> >
>> > I'm looking for a mechanism to connect to a machine that runs Debian.
>> > My client (laptop) runs Debian SID. Basically I want some sort of VNC
>> > that will give me the desktop the user at the workstation is seeing,
>> > not a fresh one.
>> >
>> > I only have experience with VNC/rdesktop to Windows machines, and
>> > didn't stop to think that it might not work the same way when the VNC
>> > server was on a Debian box.
>> >
>> > Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>>
>> VNC works in Linux in the same way that in MS Windows. I think that it is
>> all you need.
>
> It doesn't actually
Yes, it does. It's how the Linux VNC server connects to X that matters. In
KDE krfb provides a shared desktop, accessible via any VNC client. Gnome
probably has something similar.
--
derek
Reply to: